Live Play Data

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· Instant · Ultimate Masters (UMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

205

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

53%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 13% (3 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

205 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

205

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=40) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=103).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=32).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

4.7%

Library

1.2%

Battlefield

57.0%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 14 decks
2 Kami of the Crescent Moon 5 decks
3 Baral, Chief of Compliance 4 decks
4 Katara, Waterbending Master 3 decks
5 Rielle, the Everwise 3 decks
6 Charix, the Raging Isle 2 decks
7 Edric, Spymaster of Trest 2 decks
8 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 2 decks
9 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 2 decks
10 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 2 decks

Card text

Foil

Instant

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Ultimate Masters (UMA) · Common · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.